D&D - ATK Game

[Calneon]

This should be great, can't wait DK.

[Isphera]

Im sorry, but someone had to say it eventually.

You sad, sad people.

[Bloo]

Im sorry, but someone had to say it eventually.

You sad, sad people.

No sadder than everyone here, what with joining an internet community about videogames/ playing a MMO. All things are relative eh.

[Zealous]

DK head when we are both on I need some help with the character thing, I have made one but I don't think its right, lol.

[Vicious Horizon]

Oric got owned.

[D_K_Head]

How many hours have you racked up in WOW now oric?

You play a female character PURELY to sate at a pixel arse while you grind monsters for hours on end for no foreseeable reward beyond a slightly larger e-peen and the ability to take part in some PvP content. There is no ability to play your MMO uniquely, you just follow the path of a million others. If this is what you enjoy, so be it, but this kind of removes your right to call anything, or anyone sad.

Don't be a hypocrite. And D&D isn't as sad as you may think, it's actually fun. It just suffers from a reputation put onto it by the same people that made gaming a nerdy thing back then.

Oh, and does anyone else find that the person that actually plays the MMO is suddenly the expert on socially acceptable gaming?

[Isphera]

How am I a hypocrite. If anything, all the people who criticized EVE as spreadsheet commander and then started creating the pile of crap which you call a character sheet which is practically a hyped up spread sheet are hypocrites. And how is WoW any comparison to this? WOW is an actual game, whereas this is simply some jumped up novel writing exercise whilst fondling 20 sided dice.

Besides, having been off wow for 6 weeks and still having an active subscription till April, I feel that I have begun to repent my previous mistakes. Now stop being sad people and go get C+C Generals, and come play a proper game, not some essay writing contest.

[D_K_Head]

DO I sense an irrational hatred here oric? You don't seem to understand how it's played... your just spouting the same hate speeches as others have done before...

It's not an essay writing contest, and it is a real game, but without the restrictions that hound PC games... When you play fallout, you enjoy the freedom of choice, but you can never really do EXACTLY what you want. In D&D, you can. It's not limited by a system, nor by engine problems, nor by bugs. The rulebooks, the stats, hell, even the dice, are optional.

D&D may involve acctual writing (even if it can be played by voice) and a few char sheets, but it's the world created by these sheets, and the freedom provided by the DM, the human, who can understand the way a human thinks, instead of a machine programmed to give you a quest, guide you through it in one, or maybe two or three preplanned routes, and then dump a generic reward on you.

let's have an example. During a nice game of the spreadsheet simulator, I had two charactors under me... now these two were surposed to help a village evacuate and escape from an army on the march... but they didn't do it. The reward was based on how many were saved... so instead of risking it and running, they did the unexpected. They snuck into the camp... and poisioned the entire army.

Now can you say that a game involving a storyline would let you do that? Would halo allow you to change the storyline and instead of saving earth, join with the covenent? Would Half Life allow you to simply kill Alyx, and save a bunch of time? Would GTA:SA just allow you to kill the damn cop who hounds you through the entire game?

D&D may involve writing, but it's about the freedom of being able to do whatever the hell you want, weather it be save those villagers, kill the army, or capture both and sell them into slavery! It's the players damn choice. So yes. It does involve a story. Yes, it does involve d20s, YES it is a proper game, and it's a damn good one at that.

[Calneon]

DK head when we are both on I need some help with the character thing, I have made one but I don't think its right, lol.

Tom I thought you were at the dentist?

[Zealous]

Tom I thought you were at the dentist?

I was, i posted that at 12:27 in the morning lol, not in the afternoon.

[Calneon]

I was, i posted that at 12:27 in the morning lol, not in the afternoon.

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

[Vicious Horizon]

I love the way that the entire mood of the thread changes, then changes again.

Oric and DK, stop flaming.

Oric, if you think we're being 'geeky' and 'nerdy', go off and leave us alone, DK, don't fight fire with fire, that only works with Americans, rarely.

[Isphera]

OK, I'll foff from this thread, leave you to it....

[Vicious Horizon]

Thanks, not that I want to tell you to F off, but no point sparking more arguments.

[Bloo]

Jeez, that seemed like a pointless argument.

Yeah, I can make sunday, I've got nothing planned then.